Person
Senior Lecturer
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail monica.libellkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 09 48
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I wrote my PhD-thesis (2001) within the field of historical moral theories and I investigated the animal ethical ideas among three prominent German intellectuals of the 19th Century: Schopenhauer, Grysanowski and Schweitzer.
Aside from my interest in ethics I also work with history of medicine and history of concepts.
I am currently working with the concept of anthropomorphism as an outdated positivist outlook. I am also working on a lager project that concerns the meaning of Man in 18th century debate on Human Rights and Linnaeus concept of Homo sapiens.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (1)
Articles (4)
- Libell, M. (2007). Florman och anatomiska samlingen i Lund. Historielärarnas Förenings Årsskrift. Historielärarnas förening.
- Libell, M. (1998). Schopenhauer's view on animals. Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch.
- Libell, M. (1998). Tankeexperimentet som metod inom filosofin. Ugglan, 47-60. Idé- och lärdomshistoria vid Lunds universitet.
- Libell, M. (1996). Är Peter Singer fascist?. Filosofisk tidskrift. Thales.
Book chapters (7)
- Libell, M. (accepted/in press). “Blond flowing hair”, “tumid lips,” “rigid posture”, and “choleric temperament” : Universal aspirations and racial asymmetries in Linnaeus' definition of Homo sapiens. In Potoutenko, K. (Ed.) European Conceptual History Series, Hellenes and Barbarians : Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse (pp. 56-84). Berghahn Books.
- Libell, M. (2014). Seeing Animals. Anthropomorphism between Fact and Function. In Andersson-Cederholm, E., Björk, A., Jennbert, K. & Lönngren, A.-S. (Eds.) Exploring the Animal Turn. Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society and Culture (pp. 141-153). Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet.
- Libell, M. (2010). Från kolonialism till posthumanism - en historiografisk reflektion över humanioras djurstudium. In Nordin, S. & Tunlid, A. (Eds.) Djurens idéhistoria. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Libell, M. (2008). Medicinens väg - från konstform till naturvetenskap. In Broberg, G. (Ed.) Til att stwudera läkedom. Tio studier i svensk medicinhistoria (pp. 315-336). Sekel Bokförlag.
- Libell, M. (2005). A Mirror of Myself? Monist and Dualist views of Animals. In Marie, M., Edwards, S., Gandini, G., Reiss, G. & von Borell, E. (Eds.) Animal Bioethics. Principles and Teaching methods. Wageningen Academic Publishers.
- Libell, M. (2005). Djur och människa - kan vi fördjupa relationen. In Johansson, B. (Ed.) Djuren - i människans klor. Formas.
- Libell, M. (2004). Der Begriff der Zivilisation in der deutschen antivivisektionistischen Diskussion. In Brenner, A. (Ed.) Tiere Beschreiben.
Conference contributions (1)
Reviews (3)
- Libell, M. (2018). Book review of James Carleton Paget; Michael J. Thate (editors): Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action. A life in Parts. Isis, 109, 206-207. University of Chicago Press.
- Libell, M. (2005). Recension av Niklas Cserhalmi: Djuromsorg och djurmisshandel 1860-1925. Lychnos. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Libell, M. (2005). Recension av Sofia Ling: Kärringmedicin och vetenskap. Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier.
Teaching
Senior Lecturer
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail monica.libellkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 09 48
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30